Costa Rica. Lapa Rios Tropical Adventure

Accommodations

Where you stay and who hosts you on a Wildland Adventure should be as memorable as what you see and do each day. So, we use the most charming accommodations that offer exceptional personal service and locally-flavored culinary delights. We carefully select each luxuriously appointed boutique hotel, native-style lodge or simple village guest house to reflect indigenous culture and the beauty and fragility of the natural surroundings. Following is a selection of our favorite accommodations in Costa Rica.

Hotel Grano de Oro

Hotel Grano de Oro is a renovated stately Victorian mansion built at the turn of the century and updated with the warmth and comfort of a private home. The thirty-two individually styled rooms, common areas and corridors are elegantly decorated with watercolors, tapestries, and locally handcrafted furniture creating charm and character in traditional Latin American style and heritage. Hotel Grano de Oro is [...]

Lapa Rios Ecolodge

Lapa Rios Ecolodge offers a deluxe wilderness adventure, featuring comfortable, attractive accommodations and personalized service in the setting of an ocean-view rainforest reserve in the Osa Peninsula near Corcovado National Park. Lapa Rios has always been among our most highly recommended rainforest lodges in Costa Rica. Wildland Adventures was among the first ecotourism companies to work with Lapa Rios [...]

Monteverde Lodge

Monteverde Lodge is a beautiful, comfortable lodge located in the Tilaran Mountains. The lodge offers spacious, elegant rooms with large V-shaped windows and private bath. The restaurant serves meals in the family-style dining room. Architecture is modern. Wraparound windows in the dining area offer wonderful views over landscaped grounds and forested valley. To the left of the bar is an atrium over a [...]

Hotel Fonda Vela

At Hotel Fonda Vela there are 40 spacious rooms complete with private hot water baths. The two restaurants feature home style and international cuisine with charming ambiance. Hike through the property near wild avocado trees, a favorite food of the Resplendent Quetzal. Just 20 minutes uphill is the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve. [...]

"Our room at Lapa Rios was surrounded daily with monkeys and toucans, almost close enough to touch. We will remember, and talk about, this trip for a long, long time. Many thanks for your planning, advice, and execution." - Owen and Eileen Mathieu, MA